0:00:22 > 0:00:25Asking the questions, Jeremy Paxman.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27APPLAUSE
0:00:27 > 0:00:31Hello. 12 teams are already through to the second round
0:00:31 > 0:00:34of this competition. Tonight's winners will join them.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37The losers could get one more chance to qualify if their score
0:00:37 > 0:00:40is among the four highest losing scores,
0:00:40 > 0:00:44and we now know that a losing score of above 155 will guarantee
0:00:44 > 0:00:46seats in the playoffs.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Now, the University of St Andrews last won this competition
0:00:49 > 0:00:53back in 1982 - long before tonight's team was even born.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Founded in the early 15th century, it's fond of its traditions,
0:00:57 > 0:01:01such as the wearing of red gowns for the perilous Sunday morning
0:01:01 > 0:01:03pier walk after chapel.
0:01:03 > 0:01:05And alumni who may have enjoyed such things
0:01:05 > 0:01:08include the former SNP leader Alex Salmond,
0:01:08 > 0:01:11the novelist Fay Weldon, the sports presenter Hazel Irvine
0:01:11 > 0:01:13and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18Representing around 11,000 students, with an average age of 20,
0:01:18 > 0:01:20let's welcome the St Andrews team.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21Hi, I'm Matt Eccleston.
0:01:21 > 0:01:24I'm originally from St Helens in Merseyside and I'm studying
0:01:24 > 0:01:26international relations and Spanish.
0:01:26 > 0:01:27Hello there, my name's James Green.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31I'm from Schaffhausen in Switzerland and I'm studying German and Persian.
0:01:31 > 0:01:33And this is their captain.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34Hi, I'm Toby Parker.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37I'm originally from Bristol and I'm studying maths.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39Hi, I'm Andrew Vokes.
0:01:39 > 0:01:41I'm from Edinburgh and I'm studying chemistry.
0:01:41 > 0:01:43APPLAUSE
0:01:45 > 0:01:49Their opponents represent Worcester College, Oxford,
0:01:49 > 0:01:52which was founded in 1714 by the benefaction of
0:01:52 > 0:01:55Sir Thomas Cookes, a Worcestershire baronet.
0:01:55 > 0:01:57It claims to be the only Oxford college to have
0:01:57 > 0:02:02a lake in which students apparently immerse themselves after exams.
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Alumni who may have done so include the media mogul Rupert Murdoch,
0:02:06 > 0:02:10the actor Emma Watson and the newsreader Sir Alastair Burnet.
0:02:10 > 0:02:15Representing around 580 students and also with an average age of 20,
0:02:15 > 0:02:17let's meet the Worcester team.
0:02:17 > 0:02:18Hi, I'm Sam Barnett.
0:02:18 > 0:02:22I'm from Buckhurst Hill in Essex and I'm reading maths and philosophy.
0:02:22 > 0:02:23Hi, I'm Rosemary Walmsley.
0:02:23 > 0:02:25I'm from Solihull in the West Midlands
0:02:25 > 0:02:27and I'm studying maths and philosophy.
0:02:27 > 0:02:28And this is their captain.
0:02:28 > 0:02:30Hi, I'm Nick Williams.
0:02:30 > 0:02:33I'm from London and I'm also reading maths and philosophy.
0:02:33 > 0:02:37Hi, I'm Dennis Wang. I'm from Manchester and I'm studying maths.
0:02:37 > 0:02:39APPLAUSE
0:02:42 > 0:02:45OK, the rules are unchanging, so fingers on the buzzers.
0:02:45 > 0:02:47Here's your first starter for ten.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50"Human history becomes more and more a race between
0:02:50 > 0:02:53"education and catastrophe".
0:02:53 > 0:02:57Which literary figure wrote those words in the 1920 work
0:02:57 > 0:03:02The Outline Of History 25 years after the appearance of his
0:03:02 > 0:03:04first novel, The Time Machine?
0:03:05 > 0:03:07- HG Wells.- Correct.
0:03:07 > 0:03:08APPLAUSE
0:03:10 > 0:03:13The first set of bonuses are on forms of amusement,
0:03:13 > 0:03:16Worcester College. Denoting satirical imitation,
0:03:16 > 0:03:18what five-letter word has its origins in
0:03:18 > 0:03:21a game involving trickery and nonsense, invented by
0:03:21 > 0:03:24the British comedian Arthur Roberts in the late 19th century?
0:03:25 > 0:03:28Satirical form of imitation.
0:03:28 > 0:03:31- Charades? No, that's too long. - Yeah. Oh.
0:03:31 > 0:03:32- Five letters.- Oh, five letters.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37- Don't know.- Don't know, charades.
0:03:37 > 0:03:39That's not got five letters.
0:03:39 > 0:03:40It's spoof.
0:03:40 > 0:03:43Derived from an Italian word meaning "to load",
0:03:43 > 0:03:47what term describes a picture or description that exaggerates
0:03:47 > 0:03:49a person's peculiarities or defects?
0:03:49 > 0:03:51- Caricature.- Caricature.- Correct.
0:03:51 > 0:03:55John Gay's Beggar's Opera can be viewed as an example of what
0:03:55 > 0:03:58literary or artistic form that ridicules by means of
0:03:58 > 0:04:00grotesque exaggeration or imitation?
0:04:00 > 0:04:04From the late 19th century, the term came to be applied to
0:04:04 > 0:04:07an often risque form of stage performance.
0:04:07 > 0:04:08Burlesque?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12- I don't know.- Risque.
0:04:12 > 0:04:14Cabaret.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16- Cabaret?- No, it's burlesque.
0:04:16 > 0:04:17Ten points for this.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20From the Latin for "little affinity",
0:04:20 > 0:04:22referring to its low chemical reactivity,
0:04:22 > 0:04:27what term denotes a waxy, flammable solid consisting of a mixture of
0:04:27 > 0:04:32hydrocarbons obtained as a residue from the distillation of petroleum?
0:04:32 > 0:04:35It was also formally given to the series of saturated
0:04:35 > 0:04:38hydrocarbons now usually called alkanes.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42- Paraffin.- Correct.
0:04:42 > 0:04:44APPLAUSE
0:04:46 > 0:04:50For giving a right answer, you do look a bit miserable about it!
0:04:50 > 0:04:53Here are your bonuses - they're on science on the 1870s.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56In 1876, which British naturalist published
0:04:56 > 0:04:59The Geographical Distribution Of Animals?
0:04:59 > 0:05:02He gives his name to a hypothetical line that separates the fauna
0:05:02 > 0:05:05of Australasia from that of Asia.
0:05:05 > 0:05:06Alfred Russel Wallace.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12..But I don't know.
0:05:12 > 0:05:13Yeah, Wallace, yeah.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16Alfred Russel Wallace.
0:05:16 > 0:05:18- Alfred Russel Wallace.- Correct.
0:05:18 > 0:05:23In a work of 1875, the Austrian geologist Eduard Suess coined
0:05:23 > 0:05:27which term for the region of earth where life can exist?
0:05:27 > 0:05:30You can give the German term or the English version.
0:05:30 > 0:05:33Is it, I don't know, I'd guess the Goldilocks zone?
0:05:33 > 0:05:36The green border or something.
0:05:36 > 0:05:38Oh, that might be a good guess, go for it.
0:05:38 > 0:05:41I don't know.
0:05:41 > 0:05:42The green border.
0:05:42 > 0:05:44No, it's the biosphere.
0:05:44 > 0:05:47In 1871, which British naturalist published
0:05:47 > 0:05:51The Descent Of Man, And Selection In Relation To Sex?
0:05:51 > 0:05:54That's Charles Darwin.
0:05:54 > 0:05:55It is.
0:05:55 > 0:05:57- Charles Darwin.- Correct.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58Ten points for this.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01"He's got eyebrows that look surprised or cross,
0:06:01 > 0:06:03"so that's how I found the voice.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07"He talks up and down like that most of the time."
0:06:07 > 0:06:09These words, of the actress Susan Sheridan,
0:06:09 > 0:06:12refer to which fictional character whom she voiced in
0:06:12 > 0:06:15a BBC television adaptation of works by Enid Blyton?
0:06:20 > 0:06:21Noddy.
0:06:21 > 0:06:22Noddy is correct, yes.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25APPLAUSE
0:06:26 > 0:06:29Your bonuses are on the works of Roald Dahl.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32In each case, identify the story by the extract
0:06:32 > 0:06:34from its opening paragraphs.
0:06:34 > 0:06:37"It's a funny thing about mothers and fathers.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40"Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister
0:06:40 > 0:06:44"you could imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful."
0:06:44 > 0:06:46- Is that Charlie And The Chocolate Factory?- Yeah.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Erm, Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.
0:06:49 > 0:06:50No, that's Matilda.
0:06:50 > 0:06:55"Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker were selfish and lazy and cruel.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57"They never called him by his real name,
0:06:57 > 0:07:00"but always referred to him as 'you disgusting little beast'
0:07:00 > 0:07:04"or 'you filthy nuisance' or 'you miserable creature'."
0:07:04 > 0:07:06- James And The Giant Peach.- Correct.
0:07:06 > 0:07:08"'Be a good boy and don't get up to mischief'.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12"This was a silly thing to say to a small boy at any time.
0:07:12 > 0:07:14"It immediately made him wonder what sort of mischief
0:07:14 > 0:07:16"he might get up to."
0:07:16 > 0:07:18- George's Marvellous Medicine? - I think so.
0:07:18 > 0:07:20George's Marvellous Medicine.
0:07:20 > 0:07:21That's correct, well done.
0:07:21 > 0:07:22APPLAUSE
0:07:22 > 0:07:25Right, we're going to take a picture round now.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27For your picture starter you're going to see
0:07:27 > 0:07:29a map displaying the dioceses of the Church of England.
0:07:29 > 0:07:33For ten points, I want you to identify the highlighted diocese.
0:07:37 > 0:07:38Ely.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40- Oh, Ely.- Ely is correct, yes.
0:07:40 > 0:07:42APPLAUSE
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Picture bonuses are three more Church of England dioceses
0:07:46 > 0:07:48for you to identify. Five points for each.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Firstly, diocese number one.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55- Chester?- No, cos that's Chester there. That's...
0:07:57 > 0:08:00- It's not Hereford, is it? - No, it's not.- Shrewsbury?
0:08:00 > 0:08:02No, Shrewsbury's in here.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06Actually, Shrewsbury might not be a bad guess.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09You think Shrewsbury? I don't know.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11- Shrewsbury?- No, it's Lichfield.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13Secondly, diocese number two.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16Southwark, I think.
0:08:20 > 0:08:21Southwark, I think.
0:08:23 > 0:08:25- Southwark.- Southwark is right.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27And finally, diocese number three.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32- It's, erm...- Is that Bath and Wells?
0:08:32 > 0:08:35The baby-eating bishop of Bath and Wells!
0:08:35 > 0:08:38It's certainly... Wells is in there.
0:08:38 > 0:08:39Bath and Wells.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42It is the diocese of Bath and Wells. Ten points for this.
0:08:42 > 0:08:45Despite having earlier spent almost 20 years in exile,
0:08:45 > 0:08:49which writer's body lay in state under the Arc de Triomphe
0:08:49 > 0:08:52in 1885 before receiving a burial in the Pantheon?
0:08:52 > 0:08:56Described as the most powerful mind of the Romantic movement,
0:08:56 > 0:08:59his works include the verse drama Cromwell
0:08:59 > 0:09:01and the prose play Lucrece Borgia.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07- Victor Hugo.- Correct.
0:09:07 > 0:09:10APPLAUSE
0:09:10 > 0:09:13You get a set of bonuses on optics this time, St Andrews.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16Which optical aberration in a lens is due to the different
0:09:16 > 0:09:19focal lengths of rays of different orientations?
0:09:19 > 0:09:23For example, those propagating in horizontal and vertical planes.
0:09:28 > 0:09:30Just say something.
0:09:30 > 0:09:32- Disjoint focus. - No, it's astigmatism.
0:09:32 > 0:09:36What optical aberration occurs when rays emanating from
0:09:36 > 0:09:40an off-axis point do not quite converge at the focal plane,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43creating a comet-like blur from the optical axis?
0:09:43 > 0:09:46Would that be myopia or something?
0:09:46 > 0:09:47- You can say...- Myopia?
0:09:49 > 0:09:51Can I say bokeh or something?
0:09:51 > 0:09:52We don't know.
0:09:54 > 0:09:57- A bokeh? - No, that's comatic aberration.
0:09:57 > 0:10:01And finally, named after the company in York where it was invented
0:10:01 > 0:10:05in 1893, what type of compound lens is the simplest design
0:10:05 > 0:10:10capable of correcting all of the seven Seidel aberrations
0:10:10 > 0:10:11over a wide field of view?
0:10:14 > 0:10:15Varifocal.
0:10:15 > 0:10:18No, I only know one company in York and that's Rowntree's,
0:10:18 > 0:10:20but it's not going to be that!
0:10:20 > 0:10:22I don't know.
0:10:24 > 0:10:26- Smithson's. - No, that's the Cooke triplet.
0:10:26 > 0:10:29Ten points for this. Listen carefully.
0:10:29 > 0:10:30In telecommunications theory,
0:10:30 > 0:10:33when converting analogue to digital signals,
0:10:33 > 0:10:36the Nyquist interval states that in order to recreate
0:10:36 > 0:10:41the original signal, the sampling rate must be at least how many times
0:10:41 > 0:10:43the highest frequency in the sample?
0:10:48 > 0:10:49Three?
0:10:49 > 0:10:52No. Worcester, one of you buzz.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Two.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Two is correct. Twice is right.
0:10:57 > 0:10:58APPLAUSE
0:11:00 > 0:11:03Your bonuses are on a Governor-General of India,
0:11:03 > 0:11:04Worcester College.
0:11:04 > 0:11:07Which future Governor-General of India was defeated at Yorktown,
0:11:07 > 0:11:11Virginia, in the last major campaign of the American War of Independence?
0:11:11 > 0:11:13- Cornwallis.- Cornwallis?- Correct.
0:11:13 > 0:11:17Known as the Tiger of Mysore, which Indian ruler was
0:11:17 > 0:11:21briefly defeated by Cornwallis's forces in 1792
0:11:21 > 0:11:24during the Third Mysore War?
0:11:24 > 0:11:25Hyder Ali.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27- Nominate Wang.- Hyder Ali.
0:11:27 > 0:11:29No, it was Tipu Sultan.
0:11:29 > 0:11:33And finally, developed under Cornwallis's guidance in 1793,
0:11:33 > 0:11:37the code named after him underpinned the administrative system of
0:11:37 > 0:11:39British India for 40 years.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42In which eastern Indian province was it first implemented?
0:11:44 > 0:11:47- Eastern India.- Eastern, erm...
0:11:47 > 0:11:50- Assam or West Bengal or something. - I'll nominate you again.
0:11:50 > 0:11:51I don't know.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54- I'm going to nominate you. Nominate Wang.- Assam.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57No, it was Bengal. Ten points for this.
0:11:57 > 0:12:00Which major US city is named after a Franciscan friar
0:12:00 > 0:12:03often invoked as a finder of lost property?
0:12:03 > 0:12:07The mission founded there in 1718 was the sight of resistance to
0:12:07 > 0:12:12a Mexican army in 1836 and is now...
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- San Antonio.- Correct.
0:12:14 > 0:12:15That gives you the lead,
0:12:15 > 0:12:20and you get a set of bonuses on Romantic poets, Worcester College.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Of which Romantic poet did William Hazlitt write "whatever he does,
0:12:24 > 0:12:28"he must do in a more decided and daring manner than anyone else.
0:12:28 > 0:12:32"He lounges with extravagance and yawns so as to alarm the reader"?
0:12:33 > 0:12:36He's quite relaxed, I guess. Byron?
0:12:36 > 0:12:37Correct.
0:12:37 > 0:12:42Byron described which Romantic poet as "truth itself and honour itself,
0:12:42 > 0:12:46"notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion"?
0:12:47 > 0:12:50- Shelley. Shelley?- Yes, he is.
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Shelley.- Correct.
0:12:52 > 0:12:5720 years his senior, which Romantic poet did Shelley describe as
0:12:57 > 0:12:59"a cloud-encircled meteor of the air,
0:12:59 > 0:13:02"a hooded eagle among blinking owls"?
0:13:03 > 0:13:05Keats?
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Who would be older?
0:13:07 > 0:13:10Blake was quite late, wasn't he?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12Blake was 18th century or something, wasn't he?
0:13:12 > 0:13:15- I don't know. - Try going Keats.- Yeah, Keats.
0:13:15 > 0:13:16- John Keats.- No, it was Coleridge.
0:13:16 > 0:13:20Ten points for this. Which mathematician was the first
0:13:20 > 0:13:22person to formulate and solve an integral equation?
0:13:22 > 0:13:27In 1824 he published a proof of the impossibility of solving
0:13:27 > 0:13:30algebraically the general equation of the fifth degree
0:13:30 > 0:13:32and died five years later...
0:13:33 > 0:13:34Galois.
0:13:34 > 0:13:35No, you lose five points.
0:13:35 > 0:13:39And died five years later at the age of 26 in Southern Norway.
0:13:41 > 0:13:42Abel.
0:13:42 > 0:13:43Abel is correct, yes.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46APPLAUSE
0:13:47 > 0:13:50You get three bonuses on historiography, Worcester College.
0:13:50 > 0:13:53The historical work known in English as
0:13:53 > 0:13:55The Universal Mirror To Aid Government
0:13:55 > 0:14:01spans almost 14 centuries from 403 BCE and runs to more than
0:14:01 > 0:14:059,500 pages in the standard modern edition.
0:14:05 > 0:14:08It was written in the 11th century in which language?
0:14:12 > 0:14:16I was going to say Sanskrit. But is that a bit too late for Sanskrit?
0:14:16 > 0:14:18I don't know.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21- It could be Arabic.- Erm...
0:14:21 > 0:14:23Aramaic?
0:14:23 > 0:14:25It could be Chinese, but I don't actually know.
0:14:25 > 0:14:27Chinese?
0:14:27 > 0:14:28It could be, or...
0:14:28 > 0:14:30There's lots of Arabic writing, I don't know.
0:14:30 > 0:14:33- Arabic.- No, it's Classical Chinese.
0:14:33 > 0:14:38Secondly, The Universal Mirror was compiled on the orders of Yingzong,
0:14:38 > 0:14:42an emperor of which dynasty founded in 960?
0:14:42 > 0:14:48- 960 would be the Song, wouldn't it, I think?- Yeah.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- Song?- Correct.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53During the last year of his life, spent largely in bed,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56which political figure is said to have reread
0:14:56 > 0:14:59the Universal Mirror for the 18th time?
0:14:59 > 0:15:02He died in September 1976.
0:15:02 > 0:15:03That's Mao, I think.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06- Sorry?- '76, yeah. '76 was Chairman Mao.
0:15:06 > 0:15:09- Oh, Chairman Mao?- It was Mao, yes.
0:15:09 > 0:15:11Right, we're going to take a music round.
0:15:11 > 0:15:14For your music starter, you'll hear a well-known operatic overture.
0:15:14 > 0:15:17For ten points, I want the title of the opera.
0:15:17 > 0:15:20ORCHESTRAL MUSIC
0:15:21 > 0:15:22Carmen.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25- I'm sorry, Carmen. - Carmen is correct, yes.
0:15:25 > 0:15:27APPLAUSE
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Your music bonuses are three more classical works from outside
0:15:32 > 0:15:34the Iberian Peninsula, inspired, nevertheless,
0:15:34 > 0:15:38by Spanish folk melodies and dance forms.
0:15:38 > 0:15:40Five points for each composer you can identify.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43Firstly, for five, a Russian composer.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:15:55 > 0:15:57- Nominate Green.- Rimsky-Korsakov.
0:15:57 > 0:16:00Correct. Secondly, another Russian composer.
0:16:00 > 0:16:02ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:11 > 0:16:12Tchaikovsky.
0:16:13 > 0:16:16No, that's Glinka. Finally, a French composer.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20ORCHESTRAL MUSIC PLAYS
0:16:30 > 0:16:32- Ravel?- It is Ravel, yes.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Right, ten points for this.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Holyrood, to mean the Scottish Parliament,
0:16:37 > 0:16:39and brass, to mean senior military officers,
0:16:39 > 0:16:42are examples of what figure of speech?
0:16:42 > 0:16:46The term is derived from the Greek for "name change".
0:16:46 > 0:16:48- Metonym.- Metonym is correct.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50APPLAUSE
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Your bonuses are on astrophysics, Worcester College.
0:16:55 > 0:16:56In astrophysics,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00the letters CO stand for what two-word term used for any
0:17:00 > 0:17:05small, dense end product of stellar evolution, such as a white dwarf?
0:17:05 > 0:17:07- Collapsed object?- Yeah.
0:17:07 > 0:17:09- Nominate Barnett.- Collapsed object.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11No, it's compact object.
0:17:11 > 0:17:14What type of compact object might have a density of about
0:17:14 > 0:17:1610 to the 17,
0:17:16 > 0:17:20or 100 million billion kilograms per cubic metre?
0:17:20 > 0:17:22- Neutron star.- Correct.
0:17:22 > 0:17:25Finally, what type of compact object can result from the further
0:17:25 > 0:17:28gravitational collapse of a neutron star?
0:17:28 > 0:17:29- Black hole.- Correct.
0:17:29 > 0:17:31Ten points for this.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Concatenate a short word meaning a subdivision of an aeon
0:17:35 > 0:17:39in geological time and a three-letter suffix
0:17:39 > 0:17:41denoting an angle in geometry.
0:17:41 > 0:17:45This gives the six-letter title of which 2002 work,
0:17:45 > 0:17:48the first in The Inheritance Cycle by...?
0:17:49 > 0:17:52- Eragon.- Eragon is correct, yes.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54APPLAUSE
0:17:55 > 0:17:58You get three questions on the political campaigner
0:17:58 > 0:18:00and anarchist Emma Goldman.
0:18:00 > 0:18:04Firstly, Emma Goldman emigrated to the US at the age of 16,
0:18:04 > 0:18:08having been born in 1869 in Kovno,
0:18:08 > 0:18:12now known as Kaunas, in which present-day country?
0:18:12 > 0:18:14- That's Lithuania.- Lithuania.
0:18:15 > 0:18:16Yes, it's right.
0:18:16 > 0:18:18Lithuania.
0:18:18 > 0:18:20- Lithuania.- Correct.
0:18:20 > 0:18:22Emma Goldman turned to anarchism
0:18:22 > 0:18:25following the Haymarket affair of 1886,
0:18:25 > 0:18:29when police opened fire on a workers' gathering in which US city?
0:18:31 > 0:18:34I think it might be Milwaukee, but I'm not sure.
0:18:36 > 0:18:37Milwaukee.
0:18:37 > 0:18:39No, it was Chicago.
0:18:39 > 0:18:42Claiming to have been inspired by Emma Goldman,
0:18:42 > 0:18:46Leon Czolgosz assassinated which US president in 1901?
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- William McKinley.- Correct.
0:18:48 > 0:18:49Ten points for this.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52Covered by a sand dune for hundreds of years until it was exposed
0:18:52 > 0:18:57by a storm in 1850, which Neolithic site in the Orkney Islands consists
0:18:57 > 0:19:01of well-preserved stone dwellings connected by a series of passages?
0:19:03 > 0:19:06- Skara Brae. - Skara Brae is correct, yes.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07APPLAUSE
0:19:09 > 0:19:11Your bonuses are on the playwright Joe Orton.
0:19:11 > 0:19:16Which 1965 play by Orton opens with a grieving Catholic widower
0:19:16 > 0:19:19being ardently propositioned by his dead wife's nurse?
0:19:21 > 0:19:22I don't know what it's called.
0:19:22 > 0:19:25Try Loot, because that's a play by him.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28- Loot, it's the only one I know.- OK.
0:19:28 > 0:19:29- Loot.- Loot is correct.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33The denouement of which play of 1964 sees
0:19:33 > 0:19:37a middle-aged brother and sister negotiate to share the favours
0:19:37 > 0:19:40of the eponymous amoral young man?
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Mr Sloane.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44Something Mr Sloane.
0:19:44 > 0:19:45The Amazing Mr Sloane?
0:19:45 > 0:19:48- I can't remember. - Stupendous Mr Sloane?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50- No?- Something like that, but I can't remember.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Just try Mr Sloane.
0:19:53 > 0:19:54Mr Sloane.
0:19:54 > 0:19:58No, it's Entertaining Mr Sloane, the full title, so I can't accept that.
0:19:58 > 0:20:03And finally, first performed in 1969, two years after Orton's death,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07the play What The Butler Saw includes a climactic scene
0:20:07 > 0:20:12featuring an intimate body part from a statue of which British statesman?
0:20:12 > 0:20:14Churchill.
0:20:16 > 0:20:18- Winston Churchill.- Correct.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20We're going to take a second picture round now.
0:20:20 > 0:20:22For your picture starter,
0:20:22 > 0:20:25you are going to see a still from a recent award-winning documentary.
0:20:25 > 0:20:28For ten points, I want the title of that documentary.
0:20:34 > 0:20:35Selling Secrets.
0:20:35 > 0:20:38No, anyone like to buzz from Worcester College?
0:20:41 > 0:20:42Digital.
0:20:42 > 0:20:47No, it's Citizenfour, Edward Snowden and Glenn Greenwald there.
0:20:47 > 0:20:49So we'll take the picture bonuses in a moment or two.
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Here's another starter question.
0:20:51 > 0:20:54During the Second World War, the military forces of which
0:20:54 > 0:20:58country were led by Field Marshal Mannerheim?
0:20:58 > 0:21:01He's particularly associated with a defensive line bearing his name
0:21:01 > 0:21:03that was employed...
0:21:03 > 0:21:05- Finland.- Finland is correct.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07APPLAUSE
0:21:08 > 0:21:12So you take the lead, St Andrews, you get the picture bonuses.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15Laura Poitras's Citizenfour won both the Academy Award
0:21:15 > 0:21:19and the Bafta for Best Documentary in 2015.
0:21:19 > 0:21:22The picture bonuses are stills from three more recent
0:21:22 > 0:21:24Bafta-winning documentaries.
0:21:24 > 0:21:27In each case, for five points, I want the title of the documentary.
0:21:27 > 0:21:28Firstly, for five...
0:21:31 > 0:21:35- That's, erm...- Something Sugar Man.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37Searching For Sugar Man, I think, or something.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Searching For Sugar Man.
0:21:40 > 0:21:43- Searching For Sugar Man.- Correct.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45Secondly...
0:21:46 > 0:21:49- The war criminals.- Yes. - I don't know what it's called.
0:21:49 > 0:21:50What's it about?
0:21:50 > 0:21:52Indonesian war criminals.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Oh, it's the guy with the strange... The glasses.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59I don't think we know...
0:22:01 > 0:22:03Move on.
0:22:03 > 0:22:07- 40 Years Later. - No, it's The Act Of Killing.
0:22:07 > 0:22:08And finally...
0:22:10 > 0:22:12That's Senna, isn't it?
0:22:12 > 0:22:14- Senna.- Senna is right.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16Ten points for this.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18In addition to the Democratic Republic of the Congo,
0:22:18 > 0:22:22three countries have shorelines on Lake Tanganyika.
0:22:22 > 0:22:23Name two of them.
0:22:25 > 0:22:27Tanzania and Uganda.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29Nope. Anyone like to buzz from Worcester?
0:22:29 > 0:22:33- Tanzania and Burundi. - Correct - the other one is Zambia.
0:22:33 > 0:22:35APPLAUSE
0:22:36 > 0:22:40These bonuses are on Iraqi cities, Worcester.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44Encircling the ruins of the ancient Assyrian city of Nineveh,
0:22:44 > 0:22:46what is Iraq's second largest city?
0:22:46 > 0:22:48- Mosul.- Mosul.- Correct.
0:22:48 > 0:22:52Which city was the site of the battle of 680 that saw
0:22:52 > 0:22:55the Shi'ite leader and grandson of Muhammad killed by
0:22:55 > 0:22:58a force sent by the Umayyad Caliph Yazid?
0:22:59 > 0:23:02Is it, erm...? Might be Qadisiyyah.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06- Nominate Wang.- Qadisiyyah. - No, it's Karbala.
0:23:06 > 0:23:10And finally, situated on the western bank of the Shatt al-Arab,
0:23:10 > 0:23:14which city in southeastern Iraq is the country's principal port?
0:23:14 > 0:23:17- Basra.- Basra, yeah.- Basra?
0:23:17 > 0:23:19- Basra.- Basra is right.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21Five minutes to go, ten points for this.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25Serialism is a technique of musical composition associated with
0:23:25 > 0:23:27which composer born...?
0:23:27 > 0:23:29- Schoenberg.- Schoenberg is right.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31APPLAUSE
0:23:32 > 0:23:35These bonuses are on geology.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38Which large group of minerals combine the two most
0:23:38 > 0:23:40abundant elements in the earth's crust?
0:23:40 > 0:23:42Feldspars are an example.
0:23:42 > 0:23:44Silicates, I think.
0:23:44 > 0:23:47- Silicanes.- Silicates.- Silicates.
0:23:47 > 0:23:49I know, I'm sorry, I have to take the answer you gave and you
0:23:49 > 0:23:52were given the right answer, but you misheard it, obviously.
0:23:52 > 0:23:56Secondly, which group of silicates is characterised by the absence
0:23:56 > 0:24:00of cleavage planes and a black to dark green colour,
0:24:00 > 0:24:03owing to a high concentration of iron and magnesium?
0:24:03 > 0:24:05Chrysolite is an example.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12- I don't know.- Those are just names of rocks, but...
0:24:12 > 0:24:14I don't know.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16- Flint?- No, it's olivine.
0:24:16 > 0:24:19Cleaving in thin sheets, which aluminium-containing
0:24:19 > 0:24:23silicate category includes biotites and muscovites?
0:24:24 > 0:24:27- What were you going to say? - Mica.- Yeah.
0:24:27 > 0:24:28- Mica?- Mica is right.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Ten points for this.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."
0:24:32 > 0:24:36In which of Shakespeare's histories does The Boy say those words
0:24:36 > 0:24:40of Pistol, who has just departed with a French prisoner?
0:24:42 > 0:24:43- Henry V?- Correct.
0:24:43 > 0:24:46APPLAUSE
0:24:46 > 0:24:50You will take the lead if you get these bonuses, they're on a sonnet.
0:24:50 > 0:24:55Which poet's works include a sonnet of 1652 that begins with the words
0:24:55 > 0:24:57"Cromwell, our chief of men"?
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- Could it be John, um...?- Milton?
0:25:04 > 0:25:06No, no, the other - John Donne.
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- Sorry?- John Donne.
0:25:08 > 0:25:10I don't know, but try it.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12- John Donne?- No, it was Milton.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16Milton's sonnet mentions three of Cromwell's victories.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19The first is the Battle of Preston in 1648.
0:25:19 > 0:25:22Name either of the other two later battles.
0:25:22 > 0:25:24- Naseby?- Naseby will be one of them.
0:25:24 > 0:25:26Naseby was before 1648, wasn't it?
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Um...
0:25:31 > 0:25:32Worcester?
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- Worcester was one and Dunbar was the other.- Well done.
0:25:35 > 0:25:38And finally, Cromwell, Our Chief Of Men is the title of
0:25:38 > 0:25:42a 1973 biography by which historian?
0:25:42 > 0:25:43Her other works include...
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- Antonia Fraser. - Antonia Fraser is right.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49Another starter question. Listen carefully.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53Added together, how many stable isotopes exist of the first
0:25:53 > 0:25:55two elements of the periodic table?
0:25:58 > 0:25:59Three.
0:25:59 > 0:26:02Anyone like to buzz from St Andrews?
0:26:03 > 0:26:05- Four?- Four is right, yes.
0:26:05 > 0:26:06APPLAUSE
0:26:08 > 0:26:10So you take the lead, your bonuses are on winners of
0:26:10 > 0:26:12the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
0:26:12 > 0:26:14In each case, listen to the English title
0:26:14 > 0:26:16and name the film's country of origin.
0:26:16 > 0:26:19Firstly, the 2015 winner, Ida,
0:26:19 > 0:26:23about a young nun in the 1960s who discovers a dark family secret
0:26:23 > 0:26:26from the years of the German occupation.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30Belgium, France? I think probably Belgium.
0:26:30 > 0:26:31- It's not France.- Belgium.
0:26:31 > 0:26:34- Come on, let's have it, please. - Belgium.- No, it's Poland.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38The 2004 winner, The Sea Inside, the story of Ramon Sampedro's
0:26:38 > 0:26:4230-year campaign for the right to end his life with dignity.
0:26:42 > 0:26:43- Spain.- Correct.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45The 2008 winner, Departures, in which
0:26:45 > 0:26:49a newly-unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
0:26:51 > 0:26:52I don't know.
0:26:52 > 0:26:55- Try Russian or something.- Russia. - Let's have it.- Russia.
0:26:55 > 0:26:57No, it's Japan. Ten points for this.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Pinus sylvestris has what two-word common name?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03It is the only native British conifer to be grown
0:27:03 > 0:27:07commercially for timber, yielding a wood often known as red deal.
0:27:10 > 0:27:11- Scots pine.- Correct.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13APPLAUSE
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Your bonuses are on a king of England, St Andrews.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Thought to have been murdered in captivity
0:27:19 > 0:27:22after the Battle of Mirebeau, Arthur of Brittany was a rival
0:27:22 > 0:27:25to the succession of which king of England,
0:27:25 > 0:27:26who was also his uncle?
0:27:26 > 0:27:28- King John.- Correct.
0:27:28 > 0:27:32In 1208, Pope Innocent III placed England under an interdict
0:27:32 > 0:27:36when John refused to accept which prelate as Archbishop of Canterbury?
0:27:41 > 0:27:43- GONG - Stephen Langton.- Correct.
0:27:43 > 0:27:46APPLAUSE
0:27:52 > 0:27:53You were right,
0:27:53 > 0:27:56- but you don't get the points because it was after the gong.- Oh, well.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Worcester College, you led for much of the way.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01I thought you were going to be storming through to the next round.
0:28:01 > 0:28:04145, though, is not high enough to come back as one of
0:28:04 > 0:28:06the highest-scoring losing teams,
0:28:06 > 0:28:09so I'm afraid we're going to be saying goodbye to you.
0:28:09 > 0:28:12St Andrews, congratulations to you, you go through to the second round.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14I hope you can join us next time.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Until then, though, it's goodbye from Worcester College, Oxford...
0:28:17 > 0:28:20- Goodbye.- ..it's goodbye from St Andrews University...- Goodbye.
0:28:20 > 0:28:21..and it's goodbye from me - goodbye.
0:28:21 > 0:28:23APPLAUSE